Penn State has had a run of the neighborhood for as long as anyone can remember, from its years as the most successful independent Division I-A football program on the East Coast and a national power, to a little more than the past two decades in the Big Ten. As the Nittany Lions continue to rebuild and rebrand in the aftermath of the off-field child abuse scandal that ended the legendary career of Joe Paterno in 2011 and brought unprecedented sanctions from the NCAA last year, the neighborhood is in the process of changing, too. With Maryland and Rutgers set to join the Big Ten beginning in 2014, second-year coach Bill O'Brien said Wednesday that he is looking forward to having...

Penn State has had a run of the neighborhood for as long as anyone can remember, from its years as the most successful independent Division I-A football program on the East Coast and a national power, to a little more than the past two decades in the...

Baltimore Sun reporters Don Markus and Jeff Barker and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.
Given the 2014 schedule announced Thursday by the Big Ten, how tough will Maryland’s road back to...

The University of Maryland says it alerted the state attorney general nearly 25 years ago that the school's head swimming coach had acknowledged sexually abusing a girl at his private club, but he was not charged until last year.
Rick Curl, founder of...

Don't look for a $3,000 suit or slicked-back hair. Don't expect to hear empty flattery or bragging about an extensive list of superstar clients. None of that is Joe Linta.
"If you met him and he told you he was a sports agent, you wouldn't believe...

Following a string of recent cases in which coaches used their positions to sexually abuse children, the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation says it is trying to help sports organizations better screen people who work with young athletes.The foundation has...

— As Cal Ripken Jr. watched the news unfold of the sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky at Penn State University, he decided to take on the chief question before the sporting community: "What can we do to make kids safer?"
The Orioles...

Look toward London
Iliana Limón Romero
Orlando Sentinel
The London Olympics delivered the most compelling storylines of 2012. Gabby Douglas was not considered a contender for the women's gymnastics all-around gold medal at the beginning of the...

Last October, when I was helping one of The Aegis news reporters put together a story on a student athlete who had allegedly committed a sexual assault against a teenage girl, I wrote in one of my Friday columns that, as a sportswriter, I'm usually...

Navy came into Beaver Stadium on Saturday afternoon hoping to add to Penn State's collective misery from the past 10 months. The Midshipmen had designs on keeping the Nittany Lions and their new coach, Bill O'Brien, winless.Hours later, as Navy was...

He was a bearded, Bunyanesque defensive tackle whose rugged play helped the Baltimore Colts to three straight division championships in the 1970s. But Tuesday, when Joe Ehrmann addresses a national gathering convened to deal with the problem of child...

It is horrifying to open a newspaper and see Jerry Sandusky again ("Sandusky: Paterno wouldn't allow pedophile," March 26). Just when you thought the Penn State sexual abuse scandal was over, Mr. Sandusky is giving interviews to a crazed...

It is coming up on one year since the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse story broke and just about a week since his sentencing, and I am pondering what we have learned from it and where we are in relation to more open dialogue about sexual abuse.Here is what...

WEATHER The National Weather Service is calling for Friday to be mostly cloudy in the Baltimore area, with a high near 91 and light winds. Friday night is expected to be cloudy, with a low around 71 and light south winds. There is a 30 percent chance...

Spare me. Spare me the calls to abolish Penn State's football program in the wake of findings by former FBI Chief Louis Freeh that Coach Joe Paterno and other men in power hid the crimes of child rapist/assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Spare me...

ON THE SITE...Signs of violent struggle in North Baltimore triple shooting: Police found one man, age unknown, who was shot in the head and later died, one 50-year-old woman who was shot in the foot, and one 28-year-old man who was shot in the face.City...

They knew.Those are the two words that have been going through my mind since the release of the Freeh report. After months of examination of all of the facts surrounding the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case, the Freeh report proved that the top Penn State...

What we knew before former FBI director Louis Freeh's investigation into the coverup of child sexual abuse by former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was bad enough, but as I listened to and then read Mr. Freeh's 200-page report, I was once...

When Adrian Amos arrived at Penn State last summer, veteran cornerback Stephon Morris took the Calvert Hall graduate under his wing.Morris wanted to show him the ropes and how the team's secondary did things, especially since both are from Maryland....

The NCAA is expected to announce signficant penalties against the Penn State football program Monday in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.Several reports suggest that the Nittany Lions won’t become the second program to be given the...

NCAA president Mark Emmert brought down the proverbial hammer on Penn State Monday morning, imposing severe sanctions that will likely cripple the program for at least a decade.The school received a four-year bowl ban, 10 less scholarships per year...